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So saying, he glanced his eye over his own person, blazing with gems, and adorned with a chain of gold, bracelets, rings, and other ornaments, which, with a new and splendid habit, assumed since his arrival at these Cytherean gardens, tended to set off his very handsome figure.
"To the Cytherean gardens of Agelastes, from which we are not far distant," said the Anglo-Saxon; "yet he hath a nearer way to it than that by which we now travel, else I should be at a loss to account for the short space in which he could exchange the charms of his garden for the gloomy ruins of the Temple of Isis, and the Imperial palace of the Blacquernal."
And, do you note the soft breeze that seems to rise with the moon as from some Cytherean isle, breathing of love, love only love never perishing!" "Ah! were it so, Alfred!" "Is it not, Margaret? If I could fancy that you would cease to love me or I you could I think that these dear joys were to end but no! no! let us not think of it.
Athene and Aphrodite, the graces of the mind, the seductions of the person of the Countess Olenska, together draw Newland Archer, husband of May; but it is Aphrodite only, Cytherean Aphrodite, who, being sex incarnate, is more than mere temptations of the flesh, that wrecks Fanny's home. In the '70's the poor innocents of society believed their code of honor impregnable against sex.
Kelirieu, to compass his own Aim, seconded the Favorite's Desire with such flattering Stories, that his Master recommended to him the Care of finding out some Persons of both Sexes who were fit to bear a Part in these Festivals of Bacchus, and the Cytherean Deity. The Confident laid hold of this Opportunity at length, to gratify Lenertoula's Impatience to be introduced to the King.
There is no intimacy between the two households, the heads of which recognise that, as Leander puts it, "their wives harmonise better apart." To the new collection of Casts from the Antique, at South Kensington, there has been recently added one which appears in the official catalogue under the following description: "The Cytherean Venus. Marble statue. Found in a grotto in the Island of Cerigo.
Taking account of certain features in the case left unnoticed by Neison and Proctor, he inferred from them the presence of a Cytherean atmosphere considerably less refractive than our own, although possibly, in its lower strata, encumbered with dust or haze. Similar appearances are conspicuous during transits.
Lowell these were so distinct and unchanging as to furnish data for a chart of the Cytherean globe, and the peculiar arrangement of divergent shading exhibited in it cannot off-hand be set down as unreal, in view of Perrotin's earlier discernment of analogous linear traces.
Here, while one winged love holds the mirror, the other proffers a crown of flowers, not to the goddess, but to the fairest of women. The rich mantle of Venetian fashion, the jewels, the coiffure, all show that an idealised portrait of some lovely Cytherean of Venice, and no true mythological piece, has been intended.
Gwynplaine, sometimes madly in love with Dea, became melancholy, and made use of the presence of Ursus as a guard on himself. One day Ursus said to him, "Bah! do not put yourself out. When in love, the cock shows himself." "But the eagle conceals himself," replied Gwynplaine. At other times Ursus would say to himself, apart, "It is wise to put spokes in the wheels of the Cytherean car.
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